Like you, I was incredibly shy about breastfeeding in public. My best advice is to be very ‘business like’ about it all. Buy a pretty shawl or scarf and before adjusting your unperpinnings-pop it over your shoulder. I didn’t buy any specific breastfeeding clothes but a good nursing bra is a must have. Once you’re sorted under your shawl you can get baby to latch on and comfy and then rearrange the shawl. Please don’t be embarrassed, a lot of people may stare-I found staring them out helps or a cheezy grin in their direction. Could be worse, the first time I breast fed my son (now 15) in public was in a branch of Pizza H*t. I was with my mother and whilst feeding my son he began to have appalling diaorhhea and my mother got the giggles….apparently I just sat there horrified with baby poo running down my arm and my son contentedly sucking away at the other end! I still have a loathing of Pizza H*t now. *shudder*
Hi there. Sorry to hear you’ve been having trouble breastfeeding in public. If you’re worried about exposing your postnatal tummy, then you might want to think about looking at breastvest, which makes any top a breastfeeding top and covers the whole midriff area, so you can lift up your top to feed with confidence and don’t have to reveal anything you’d rather keep under wraps.
Plus, breastvest lets you get back into your favourite clothes, because there’s no need for specialised breastfeeding tops.
Thousands of mums all over the UK tell us it’s an essential piece of their breastfeeding kit! Good luck and stick with it! x
I have a 10 week old now and I was finding it hard still but after seeing another mum proudly get it all out like it’s the most natural thing in the world I don’t really struggle too much anymore. But still I feel embarrassed sometimes as because you don’t see many people breastfeed in public I feel like it looks like I’m doing it to show off or make a statement as all you tend to see is bottles.
I wear a boob tube over a nursing bra where the top is elasticated. It’s just like a vest top but without the straps, I got mine really cheap in a high street store as they’re in fashion at the moment. I can wear any top over this but as I wear baby in a sling and it gets hot they are all I’m wearing at the moment under the sling and they’re great as long as you don’t mind bra straps on show (if have black bra you won’t notice at all). For coverage I pop the 2 top corners of a muslin under either bra strap and tuck it around the bra cup of the boob I’m using so don’t flash at the side either.
I was worried at first so I sat in clothes I would normally feed in and fed my son in front of a mirror. I was surprised to see so little. Looking down I see lots but someone looking at me sees very little. Also find somewhere comfortable to feed. My firm fave has to be Starbucks, low lighting, comfy sofas and i’ve found they will bring drinks and everything over if you are feeding. It also helps to take along someone for support for the first few times.
Breastfeeding is the most natural thing in the world, you should never be ashamed or embarrassed about it, it was the best decision i ever made after having my child now 3 (breast fed till 9 months.) I was like you embarrassed about feeding in public at first and almost paranoid that someone was going to give me a lecture for feeding in public, at first i was very modest about it and getting into a right panic about no one seeing me by using a muslin but then i realised that was pointless my child needed to be fed and nethier me, my baby girl or anyone else could do anything to change that, and getting stressy/embarrased wasnt helping anyone, if someone had a issue with me breastfeeding that was there problem not ours, i made a decision that if i wanted to make breastfeeding acceptable i had to lead by example and by 4 months old i was walking around royal cornwall show feeding my daughter proudly, not one person out of the thousands there that day said a thing about it! sorry if i sound like a ‘breastfeeding nazi’ im really not, bottle or breast whatever the decision if its made by the mother then it is the best choice for the child in my opinion, but the best advice to you is do what makes you happy if your happy your baby will be too, look deep into your baby’s eyes as you feed and forget the world around you, it is such a precious time so cherish every moment. hope this helps xxx
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Like you, I was incredibly shy about breastfeeding in public. My best advice is to be very ‘business like’ about it all. Buy a pretty shawl or scarf and before adjusting your unperpinnings-pop it over your shoulder. I didn’t buy any specific breastfeeding clothes but a good nursing bra is a must have. Once you’re sorted under your shawl you can get baby to latch on and comfy and then rearrange the shawl. Please don’t be embarrassed, a lot of people may stare-I found staring them out helps or a cheezy grin in their direction. Could be worse, the first time I breast fed my son (now 15) in public was in a branch of Pizza H*t. I was with my mother and whilst feeding my son he began to have appalling diaorhhea and my mother got the giggles….apparently I just sat there horrified with baby poo running down my arm and my son contentedly sucking away at the other end! I still have a loathing of Pizza H*t now. *shudder*
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Hi there. Sorry to hear you’ve been having trouble breastfeeding in public. If you’re worried about exposing your postnatal tummy, then you might want to think about looking at breastvest, which makes any top a breastfeeding top and covers the whole midriff area, so you can lift up your top to feed with confidence and don’t have to reveal anything you’d rather keep under wraps.
Plus, breastvest lets you get back into your favourite clothes, because there’s no need for specialised breastfeeding tops.
Thousands of mums all over the UK tell us it’s an essential piece of their breastfeeding kit! Good luck and stick with it! x
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I have a 10 week old now and I was finding it hard still but after seeing another mum proudly get it all out like it’s the most natural thing in the world I don’t really struggle too much anymore. But still I feel embarrassed sometimes as because you don’t see many people breastfeed in public I feel like it looks like I’m doing it to show off or make a statement as all you tend to see is bottles.
I wear a boob tube over a nursing bra where the top is elasticated. It’s just like a vest top but without the straps, I got mine really cheap in a high street store as they’re in fashion at the moment. I can wear any top over this but as I wear baby in a sling and it gets hot they are all I’m wearing at the moment under the sling and they’re great as long as you don’t mind bra straps on show (if have black bra you won’t notice at all). For coverage I pop the 2 top corners of a muslin under either bra strap and tuck it around the bra cup of the boob I’m using so don’t flash at the side either.
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I was worried at first so I sat in clothes I would normally feed in and fed my son in front of a mirror. I was surprised to see so little. Looking down I see lots but someone looking at me sees very little. Also find somewhere comfortable to feed. My firm fave has to be Starbucks, low lighting, comfy sofas and i’ve found they will bring drinks and everything over if you are feeding. It also helps to take along someone for support for the first few times.
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Breastfeeding is the most natural thing in the world, you should never be ashamed or embarrassed about it, it was the best decision i ever made after having my child now 3 (breast fed till 9 months.) I was like you embarrassed about feeding in public at first and almost paranoid that someone was going to give me a lecture for feeding in public, at first i was very modest about it and getting into a right panic about no one seeing me by using a muslin but then i realised that was pointless my child needed to be fed and nethier me, my baby girl or anyone else could do anything to change that, and getting stressy/embarrased wasnt helping anyone, if someone had a issue with me breastfeeding that was there problem not ours, i made a decision that if i wanted to make breastfeeding acceptable i had to lead by example and by 4 months old i was walking around royal cornwall show feeding my daughter proudly, not one person out of the thousands there that day said a thing about it! sorry if i sound like a ‘breastfeeding nazi’ im really not, bottle or breast whatever the decision if its made by the mother then it is the best choice for the child in my opinion, but the best advice to you is do what makes you happy if your happy your baby will be too, look deep into your baby’s eyes as you feed and forget the world around you, it is such a precious time so cherish every moment. hope this helps xxx
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